Mon State

Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar, with Moulmein serving as its capital. Located along the Andaman Sea and west of Kayin State, Mon State was converted to Theravada Buddhism by the 6th century AD. In 1024, the Khmer Empire sacked the Mon kingdom's capital, and Mon was conquered by the United Kingdom in 1824 after the First Anglo-Burmese War. After Burmese independence in 1947, a movement began to restore Mon State's independence, contributing to the Burmese Civil War.